CHAPTER 27- SELLING DAUGHTER CHAPTER 28- THE SECRET OF BIRTH

Qiao Yue was born from two laborers and later on married into the Song family and began to operate business as she was not satisfied with her life at that time. And now, her business was in larger scale compared to her husband and thus not only does she hold power over her husband, she had even looked down on the Song relatives that were not wealthy. Due to that, even with her publicly condemning Song Ye, as a father, Song Yuan Zhi also dared not to utter even a single word. 

Seeing the eldest aunt who hold the most power talking, Song Ting Ting then filled in the gap by making Song Ye seem worse,

"Eldest aunt, Song Ye had been missing for the past week. Without knowing where she was or how she got her meals from, dad and mum were so worried that she had met someone bad."

When everyone heard that, rather than worrying over her, they had only felt disgust.

A good looking fifteen year-old girl that had went missing for a week. Who knew whether or not she did anything out of line when she was hungry to feed herself.

What Song Ting Ting said had successfully made everyone there tagged Song Ye as a delinquent.

Qiao Yue was even more direct. She hardened her face and spouted,

"Hmph, shameless."

Song Yuan Zhi's pride was unable to hold it out any longer and stood up to shout into the corner,

"You fucking damned bastard kid, tell me where you had been and what you have been doing these few days clearly. Not returning home for a week, do you still respect me, who is your father!"

He rarely educated and lectured his children, but when the situation was severely called for it, he must act like a parent. When he does so, even Song Ting Ting and Song Mei Mei can't help but shivered at it.

Song Ye used to fear and be afraid of this father of hers to the point she would begin crying when he lectured her. Soon after, when she had grown up and remembered how this man had allowed Lu Lan to abuse her in the house, the gratitude that Song Ye had, had slowly vanished into thin air.

Even after fifteen years had passed and facing Song Yuan Zhi once again, Song Ye's heart only felt calmness and nothing more. With her cold voice, she spoke slowly,

"I'm here to inform you today that I'm going to cut my ties with the Song family. From now onward, whatever that's mine or related to me has nothing to do with the Song family."

She had originally wanted to see what Lu Lan had in mind when she dragged her here. But at this point after seeing the faces of the Song family, she decided not to deal with them anymore.

But for others that did not know that the soul living inside Song Ye is currently thirty years old, hearing the fifteen year-old teenager saying she wanted to cut ties with the family, the shock in their hearts were beyond words that could be describe.

As the head of their family, the blood pressure of Song Yuan Zhi went to its peak when he heard the unorthodox words. Trembling slightly, his hands subconsciously raised up,

"If you spout nonsense again, I will beat you up right now."

"You can try to do that."

Song Ye directly refuted and did not even flinch.

The room was now in a tense situation and anything can happen right at this instant. A proper family banquet had almost turned into domestic violence and in the eyes of others, it was the daughter, Song Ye who was being stubborn. This time, for sure, she will be beaten up severely.

And at this tense moment, the one to open their mouth was as usual, Qiao Yue.

"That's enough. We're here today to celebrate Cheng En entering high school, so stop making a ruckus. Si Di, put your hands down first and talk it out properly."

No one would've thought that Qiao Yue who was still angry earlier would be the one to meditate the situation. Everyone's eagerness in watching what will happen next was not able to turn in time and they felt awkward.

Song Ye's eyesight fell onto the center position of the table and had an unknown glimmer in her eyes.

Qiao Yue smiled and had Song Yuan Zhi sit down. She had also generously allowed Song Ye to sit down,

"We're all of the same family, just talk it out if there's any misunderstanding. Why would you all just fight until the mood turns sour. If I were to say, she must have learned all of these from her school. The standard of San Zhong is low, so she might as well just get in contact with the society earlier and know how the world works."

Song Ye who was seated to her left side said nothing when she heard that.

Qioa Yue then frowned and thought, even though she said up till this point, she still did not understand what she said, how much of an idiot can she be. 

"Eh, what sister-in-law said was true. Even studying requires talent – like Cheng En, even that is also someone that is hard to sought for."

The few sister-in-laws then began to take this chance to flatter her.

Qiao Yue smiled while nodded her head, pretentiously reacting to them. Soon, she then went back to the topic,

"Si Di, with all three daughters of yours attending the school at the same time, it must have been quite a burden on you. I'm not being patriarchal, but if they had only learn something bad from the school. And so, why don't we do it this way. I just have a factory set up and the manpower's lacking. I can see that Song Ye is not a bad child, so why don't you have her come over to help me out. I can also educate her while we're at it."

This time around, after she was done beating around the bush, everyone understood what she had wanted to say.

Song Ye crossed her arms and leaned onto the back of the chair. Looking at Qiao Yue's pretentious face, she had understood what she was up to.

With only just her mouth, she will be able to obtain a free worker. Wasn't that a good idea.

"Yes, what eldest sister-in-law said was true! This damned bastard was not even able to achieve anything academically, she might as well just go and work. Following eldest sister-in-law and decreasing the burden in the family, it will be the best decision."

Before Song Yuan Zhi was able to say anything, Lu Lan hurriedly made her stand. She had calculated everything in her heart. As long as Song Ye were to go out and work, then Song Ting Ting and Song Mei Mei's livelihood will not be a worry anymore.

Song Yuan Zhi was unhappy when he had his march stolen, but when he thought about how Song Ye had refuted him earlier, he felt unhappy and agreed to it,

"Yeah, who knew what useless things she had learned from school. She might as well just don't attend it anymore."

Seeing both the parent agreeing to it, Qiao Yue knew that things had worked out and lifted the wine glass,

"Don't worry, she won't lose anything if she's in my care."

"Just like what you've said. Then, I will have to trouble eldest sister-in-law."

Song Yuan Zhi was surprised and lifted the wine glass as well, but his eyes were wandering around, not daring to look at Song Ye's eyes.

Although this glass of wine were exchanged in the family banquet, it was in actual a happy deal with equal benefits. Happy to sell their daughter away just like that.

"Hah, what foolishness."

In the midst of such peaceful atmosphere, a cold sneer had crushed the harmony. Under the glance of everyone, Song Ye calmly stood herself up and swept her gaze through everyone and finally to Qiao Yue,

"I knew that your brains are not working. I will repeat it once again, the Song family had noting to do with me already. Selling or not to sell, just do whatever suits you."

With a loud bang, Qiao Yue loudly slammed onto the table and glared at the girl in front of her,

"I see that you've really become quite the delinquent. Disrespecting the elder, today I shall educate you in your parent's place."

Following the angry scolding, Qiao Yue raised her arms towards that young and exquisite face without any hesitation.

A loud clap can be heard, as if it was echoing through the room, the surroundings had gone quiet.

With her hair becoming messy, Qiao Yue's face tilted to the side. The pain on her face was especially clear to her, but she was unable to come back to her senses.

She was slapped publicly. She was slapped by a younger member of the family in front of the whole family.

"Song Ye, have you gone nuts?"

Lu Lan hurriedly jumped over. If Song Ye had offended Qiao Yue, she would feel great regret to have even came here in the first place.

CHAPTER 28- THE SECRET OF BIRTH

The banquet today was in fact, a discussion Lu Lan had with Qiao Yue beforehand. And the purpose of it was to curry favor with Qiao Yue, and at the same time, to teach Song Ye a lesson.

But who would've thought that the timid Song Ye that lacked existence would dared to openly go against her parents and took the upper hand and slapped Qiao Yue first.

The surroundings had gone out of control when that slapping sounds were heard.

Lu Lan jumped over, wanting to pull Song Ye's hair. But the latter had dodged to the side, causing her to fall onto Qiao Yue.

"Ouch."

The impact of the rolling purple yam was so great that Qiao Yue's spine almost broke from it. The table was also crushed and all the plates of food had came crashing down the floor, making a mess.

"Mum."

"Mother."

The son and daughter beside her rushed up and exclaimed while trying to help her up. Song Cheng En and Song Cheng Mei had even began raising their voice,

"How dare you hit my mother with your low upbringing. Let me tell you, we of the *first family will not let you go just like that."

While leaving behind those words, Song Cheng En kept on glaring at Song Ye's face. When she entered and was compared to him, he had felt unhappy about it. Even though they are relatives, she's still not worthy to be compared to him.

Song Ye was able to understand his mentality from his glare full of hatred. With a cold smile on her face, she then turned around stepping onto the food scrapes and was about to walk out of the room.

She did not want to bother herself with a bunch of mad dogs, but there were still some that can't read the situation and tried to mess with her.

"Song Ye, you can't go."

Song Yuan Zhi raised his arms to block Song Ye's way, the anger on his face was the same as everyone in the room,

"With how this place turned out to be like this because of you, and you over here still have that attitude. Let me tell you, if you don't apologize to your eldest aunt, don't you even think about stepping out of this door."

Compared to others, Song Yuan Zhi's mood was the worst. Song Ye was still a child, and so all the blame of faults she committed will fall onto him. The compensation for the food in this room was enough to make him feel stressed out.

So, Song Ye can't go. As long as this deal is done with, Qiao Yue then won't sought any trouble with him.

"Get out of my way. Don't let me repeat that for the second time."

Song Ye frowned, her voice was so cold it was almost as if it can freeze people up.

If her colleagues in her past life see her acting like this, they would have been so scared that they would be running away for their life. Because they knew, Song Ye can be really scary when she was angry.

But Song Yuan Zhi did not know and took out the attitude of a father towards his child, stretching his hands out wanting to pull onto her arm,

"You too don't make me repeat it the second time. Hurry up and apologize to your el- Ah!"

Before he can finish his sentence, Song Yuan Zhi suddenly felt pain in his wrist and his whole body was instantly lifted from the ground, with his right arm going around 180°. When his back hits the floor, he was in so much pain he screamed.

Song Ye had single handedly beat him down and under the stupefied looks of everyone, the pair of white shoe then stepped onto the man's chest. Looking down, she was able to see the confused and the painful struggling look on his face, she then coldly said,

"Surprised? The blood flowing in me is not even that of the Song family. Even if I were born to be cruel and cold, it would not be weird at all."

When she had said those, Song Yuan Zhi who was on the floor widened his eyes and forgot to struggle,

"You…"

"Don't ask how I know about it."

Song Ye moved her glance away and swept it over Lu Lan, Song Ting Ting and Song Mei Mei, one by one. Her voice becoming more and more colder,

"I should be grateful that you had saved me that year. But I had began to do the house chores when I was only three years old and serving Song Ting Ting and Song Mei Mei in ensuring they had an easy life. I even went out to work during winter holidays to help the family out. I ate even the leftovers that all of you left behind, wore what all of you threw out. When Lu Lan was slightly dissatisfied she would even beat me up and condemned me. When all of this had happened in front of you, you had not even tried to stop it. The responsibilities and gratitude towards the Song family have been fully repaid in these fifteen years. So, from now onward, there's nothing between us anymore."

The cold and calm voice resounded through the room. The shock that everyone had felt from the beginning turned into them losing their words. Although Song Ye was not of the Song family and they had discriminated against her all these years, they had never known that Song Yuan Zhi and his family had abused Song Ye until that point.

While Lu Lan mother and daughters group had gone silent from the guilt, Song Yuan Zhi's train of thoughts were different from others. He was on the floor unable to move, but his face was that of impatience,

"Song Ye, you knew where she's at, don't you. You tell me, tell me…."

The 'her' from his mouth is none other than Song Ye's biological mother. On that year, she had escaped to Yun Cheng with Song Ye in her arms. When she met Song Yuan Zhi, she then left her daughter in his care. And Song Yuan Zhi had fallen in love at first sight with her to the point that he had swore not to get married in his life. At that time, Grandpa Song was so angry by this he almost had a heart attack and even said he wanted to burn the calamity called Song Ye. In the end, as he waited for a long time without any news from her, he then had to marry the uncultured Lu Lan when his age went up.

Even though so many years had passed, the woman was still in his heart.

Even the most hateful person will be pitiable at some point. The Song Yuan Zhi at this moment was just a man that was crazy due to love, but,

"I will never tell you anything about her."

Living through her life twice, she had never know what was love and desire. Even if she didn't know, she won't ever think that Song Yuan Zhi's longing is any form of love. If not he would not have distanced himself away from her after Lu Lan purposefully hidden her face.

And that woman, her biological mother, she will look for her.

But, now is still not the time to do so.

Ignoring the pretentious face of the people in the room, Song Ye turned around and opened the door of the room.

At the moment, the door had closed, Lu Lan then regained her senses,

"Can't go, we can't let her get out of here. Song Yuan Zhi, what do we do if she was to get out of here!"

This roar had everyone pulled back to the reality from the depths of their thoughts. Looking at the messy situation in front of him and thinking about the compensation for it, he then hurriedly got up,

"Song Ye!"

When he pulled open the door, Song Yuan Zhi who had a messy appearance now crashed into someone, and it was not Song Ye. The man standing in front of the door of the room was wearing a formal suit with light reflecting from the leather. Even if he did not know the brand of the clothing, Song Yuan Zhi had subconsciously felt inferior when he saw the watch on the man's wrist and was about to bow down to apologize. But when his eyesight moved, he saw someone familiar,

"Song, Song Ye…"

Zhao Zhen, who felt pain from his chest that was caused by how hard Song Yuan Zhi crashed into him had frowned and wanted to reprimand him. But to his surprise, he heard the man calling out to Song Ye's name, so, he reflexively turned his head towards the girl in front of him,

"Song Ye, do the both of you know each other?"

"Mmn."

Song Ye did not deny it. Not wanting to delve deeper into the topic, she then looked towards the man beside Zhao Zhen,

"If Director Wang believes me, do leave a seat for me in the next event."

Wang Yu Tang then laughed, 

"I had heard that Director Zhao had someone capable to direct him. I never would've thought that I would have the luck to meet with you today. Do not worry, Miss Song, at that time, I will personally come over to send the invitation out. I actually liked the Apple Green quite a lot, but it was such a pity that there were members of the Qu family there. Haha, if there are any other good stocks, do leave one for me."

"Haha, don't worry about it, Director Wang."

Director Wang? Director Zhao? Apple Green?

Song Yuan Zhi was confused when he heard all of those terms. When did his daughter Song Ye get to know these people?